by Agatha Christie
This is my third (I think) read of this particular Christie, and I found it to be a lot of fun this time around. I absolutely love Bundle, and George Lomax (Codders) is a hysterically funny, biting caricature of a certain type of British gentleman, puffed up with his own importance and significantly...
Superintendent Battle remains inscrutable as ever in his second book, but this time Bundle Brent gets the chance to shine that was denied her in The Secret of Chimneys. And shine she does, so brightly that she nearly blinds poor Battle. While Seven Dials doesn’t seem to have quite the same sarcastic...
Wow. This was so good. I took a while to read this one since the first few pages didn't grab me at all. However, when I finally went back to it, I was totally engrossed. We have the second book in the Superintendent Battle series. I read "Cards on the Table" a few years back and realized that was co...
I have to admit, I´m not the biggest fan of Agatha Christies conspiracy / secret society novels. They have an odd feeling to them and I´m never sure if I should take these books seriously or not. The same goes for The Seven Dials Mystery. I wasn´t impressed by the story, I thought the ending to be a...
The next volume in Grant's Oxrun Station novellas series is Dialing the Wind, a collection with an inscrutable title. The first story in the collection is also called "Dialing the Wind", and after reading it, you'll understand the title, but whoever selected this as the title of the book must not h...
I enjoyed this very much. And I am ever again amazed at the gap in quality between those "old" books and most of the recent ebooks I download. And not only the self-published ones. It is evidence to the importance of editing. Talent brings you only so far... As this is more a side-not and no...
"The clocks were wrapped up and paid for. Mr Murgatroyd watched the cars drive away with a puzzled air. Very spirited the young people of the upper classes nowadays, very spirited indeed, but not at all easy to understand. He turned with relief to attend to the vicar’s wife, who wanted a new kind of...
Seven Dials is Christie's subversion of the 1920s style thriller, only with a plucky female heroine and a subtle commentary on English society. A manor murder, a secret society, a slummy club in the East End, and international espionage that make it seem artificially complicated, but it was enjoyab...
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This is another book by Agatha Christie which i love. I was surprised after reading this one because it was actually quite funny.
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